Operation Barnabas

In 2007, The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod’s Ministry to the Armed Forces launched Operation Barnabas. Through this program — the only one of its kind in the U.S. — together with our congregations, we accomplish three key goals:

1. Care for Reserve chaplains and their families and congregations.

2. Train and assist local congregations in the care, support and outreach to all military connected people in their congregations and their communities.

3. Serve as a resource to other organizations that provide care to military connected people.

Our desire is to enable our congregations to lead their communities in welcoming these military families back home. They have borne the weight of repeated deployments, and we can prepare to receive them home in concert with local chambers of commerce, schools and medical facilities.

To find out more about this very important mission, please see https://www.lcms.org/ministry-to-the-armed-forces/operation-barnabas, from where this introduction text was taken.

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